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Thousands of Broadways
Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
Inbunden, 2009
175 kr
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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure …
Thousands of Broadways
Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
E-bok, 2009
363 kr
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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky’s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America’s most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of …
Life of David
E-bok, 2005
196 kr
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Part of the Jewish Encounter series Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate …
Selected Poems
Häftad, 2012
190 kr
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Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street - these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, "Sadness and Happiness" (1975), celebrated for setting a new …
Proverbs of Limbo
Poems
Häftad, 2025
203 kr
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A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo , his first new book …
Proverbs of Limbo
Poems
E-bok, 2024
171 kr
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A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo , his first new book …
Singing School
Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Inbunden, 2013
289 kr
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Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work: studying magnificent, monumentally enduring …
Book of Poetry for Hard Times
An Anthology
Häftad, 2021
196 kr
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Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, former Poet Laureate Robert …
Jersey Breaks
Becoming an American Poet
Inbunden, 2022
212 kr
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In late-1940s Long Branch, an historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighbourhood of Italian, Black and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was …
Sadness And Happiness
Poems by Robert Pinsky
Häftad, 1975
273 kr
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From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky: CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- The unseasonable soul holds forth, Eager for form as a renowned Pedant, the emperor's man of worth, …
Situation of Poetry
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
Häftad, 1978
391 kr
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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry's situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the …
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
Häftad, 2005
331 kr
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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, …
Explanation of America
E-bok, 2020
361 kr
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From An Explanation of America : LAIR Robert Pinsky Inexhaustible, delicate, as if Without source or medium, daylight Undoes the mind; the infinite, Empty actual is too bright, Scattering to where the road Whispers, through a mile of woods … Later, how quiet the house is: Dusk-like and refined, The …
Sadness And Happiness
Poems by Robert Pinsky
E-bok, 2020
361 kr
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From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky : CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- The unseasonable soul holds forth, Eager for form as a renowned Pedant, the emperor''s man of worth, …
Situation of Poetry
Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
E-bok, 2020
525 kr
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In this book Robert Pinsky writes about contemporary poetry as it reflects its modernist and Romantic past. He isolates certain persistent ideas about poetry''s situation relative to life and focuses on the conflict the poet faces between the nature of words and poetic forms on one side, and the …
Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems
Häftad, 2026
204 kr
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The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival of …
Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems
E-bok, 2026
279 kr
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The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureatenow combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky's first two collectionsSadness And Happiness and An Explanation of Americaannounced the arrival of a …
On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
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“Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.”—Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry’s individual, human scale …
On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
E-bok, 2026
328 kr
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';Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.'Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureatenow combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as …
Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems
E-bok, 2026
279 kr
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The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureatenow combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky's first two collectionsSadness And Happiness and An Explanation of Americaannounced the arrival of a …
On Poetry, Culture, and Democracy
E-bok, 2026
328 kr
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';Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet-critic.'Robert LowellTwo important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureatenow combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorFor Robert Pinsky, poetry's individual, human scale as …
Pangyrus Five
The Resistance Issue
Av Robert Pinsky, Steve Almond m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
213 kr
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